UPDATE: Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm still trying to put positive spin on Chicago rising gun violence

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm still trying to put positive spin on Chicago rising gun violence:

Removal of De Diego principal and AP at so-called 'welcoming school'

We don't know where nearly half of the students in Chicago's 50 closed schools wound up. We know that several thousand never showed up at their so-called "welcoming schools". I have personally counted many who showed up this year in already-overcrowded inner-ring suburban schools as black families continue their out-migration from Chicago's south and west sides. Now I hear that Principal

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Rahm still trying to put positive spin on Chicago rising gun violence

Rahm's PR team is trying to spin the slight reduction in Chicago murders as a plus for his policing policies even as our city's violence continues to outpace even New York and L.A..

Leaving Chief McCarthy's propensity for fudging the numbers aside for a moment, what are we to make of the latest report coming out of City Hall on Chicago's killing fields. The good news, according to CPD body counters is that murders are down from 2013. OK, they're only down by 9 from last year, but down is better than up, especially with an election for Rahm on the horizon.

But a closer look at the numbers shows that shootings have dramatically increased over that same period. More victims shot but slightly fewer have died. What to make of that? Probably just luck, if you call being paralyzed for life lucky. But certainly not anMike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm still trying to put positive spin on Chicago rising gun violence: